Freethought Radio

A weekly show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews.

Jim McCollum, who at age 10 became the center of a huge legal battle
against religious instruction in the public schools, will talk about the
60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, McCollum v. Board of
Education, keeping schools free of indoctrination. The show will also pay
homage to several other anniversaries of significant Supreme court
decisions affirming separation between church and state. Listen for cameos
of famed litigants Roy Torcaso, Ed Schempp and Vashti McCollum.

Elissa Wall, author of "Stolen Innocence," will talk about being
married against her will at age 14 to an adult in her polygamous
Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community in Utah. Wall was the key
witness in the criminal trial which convicted FLDS patriarch Warren
Jeffs of being an accomplice to rape. The show will also feature Sarah
Braasch, FFRF's legal intern, who will talk about her research into
unlawful Christian prayers opening the Wisconsin State Assembly. Her
interview will include sound bites of a legislator casting the "Evil
One" out of the chambers!

Michael Shermer, one of America's leading skeptics, will be
interviewed, along with Denver FFRF activist Mike Smith, about the
"Imagine No Religion" billboard he helped get posted for two months
this summer in Denver.

Author: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American
Power," Jeff Sharlet, contributor to Harper's and Rolling Stones, will
be interviewed about his new book exposing a religious-right cult with
tentacles reaching into Congress. Freethinkers Almanac will celebrate
several musical composers and the hosts will discuss the biblical roots
of the polygamy scandal involving the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints.